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PATHCHK(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual PATHCHK(1)
NAMEpathchk -- check pathnames
SYNOPSISpathchk [-p] pathname...DESCRIPTION
The pathchk utility checks whether each of the specified pathname argu-
ments is valid or portable.
A diagnostic message is written for each argument that:
+o Is longer than PATH_MAX bytes.
+o Contains any component longer than NAME_MAX bytes. (The value of
NAME_MAX depends on the underlying file system.)
+o Contains a directory component that is not searchable.
It is not considered an error if a pathname argument contains a nonexis-
tent component as long as a component by that name could be created.
The options are as follows:
-p Perform portability checks on the specified pathname arguments.
Diagnostic messages will be written for each argument that:
+o Is longer than _POSIX_PATH_MAX (255) bytes.
+o Contains a component longer than _POSIX_NAME_MAX (14) bytes.
+o Contains any character not in the portable filename character
set (that is, alphanumeric characters, `.', `-' and `_'). No
component may start with the hyphen (`-') character.
EXAMPLES
Check whether the names of files in the current directory are portable to
other POSIX systems:
find . -print | xargs pathchk -p
DIAGNOSTICS
The pathchk utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSOgetconf(1), pathconf(2), stat(2)STANDARDS
The pathchk utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
A pathchk utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
FreeBSD 10.1 May 21, 2002 FreeBSD 10.1